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How to Automate KPI Reporting

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are critical to many businesses. But KPI reporting takes time, and frequently gets outdated. With Runbear, AI agents can deliver live KPI summaries & visualizations directly into Slack.

What is a KPI?

A key performance indicator, or KPI, is a measurable value that demonstrates how effectively a team or organization is achieving business goals. KPI reporting helps teams focus on what matters most. KPIs provide a clear way to track progress, identify trends, and make decisions backed by data.

KPI examples

Each team will have different KPIs, as they focus on different parts of a business. The KPI should be chosen to measure how effectively a team is generating value. Below are some KPI examples for different teams.

KPI for HR department

  • Net promoter score: likelihood to recommend the company
  • Turnover: percentage of employees who leave per year
  • Time to hire: time taken to fill open positions

KPI for finance department

  • Annual revenue: total income generated per year
  • Return on investment: efficiency and profitability of investments
  • Profit margin: percentage of revenue that is profit after expenses

KPI for operations department

  • Inventory: value or turnover rate of goods held in stock
  • Customer satisfaction: how products meet customer expectations
  • Fulfillment time: time to deliver a product

Why automate KPI reporting?

Manual KPI reporting is slow, repetitive, and prone to errors. Teams waste time gathering data and miss out on real-time insights that could drive better decisions. Runbear’s AI agents remove this busywork, letting you focus. They deliver actionable insights from all your business tools, directly into Slack. Getting numbers isn’t your job - acting on them is.

Runbear fetches data from Google Sheets with MCP......and delivers a comprehensive report in seconds.

Runbear for KPI reporting

  1. 🔗 Connect to any data source: Integrate Google Sheets, Salesforce, Asana, and more—using MCP.
  2. 💬 Ask for KPIs in natural language: “Show last week’s revenue,” “What’s our churn rate?” or “Summarize Q2 marketing performance.”
  3. 📊 Instant, visual reports in Slack: The AI agent fetches the latest numbers, builds charts, and posts summaries or even entire dashboards.
  4. ⏰ Automated schedules: Set up daily, weekly, or monthly KPI reports—delivered automatically to your team.
  5. 🚨 Smart alerts and follow-up: Get notified about anomalies, missed targets, or trends, and receive AI-suggested next steps.

How to setup in <10 minutes

Runbear is ready before your morning coffee brews. No coding, no flowcharts.

  • Create Your Agent: visit runbear.io and select Quick Start
  • Describe Its Role: tell Runbear what you want your agent to do
An AI agent that reports KPIs from the information in connected business tools. It advises our executive team with summaries & visual reports.
  • **Let Runbear Work: **the AI crafts its own prompt, using best practices for prompt engineering, customize or use as-is
  • Integrate Tools: connect your business apps (Notion, Jira, Sheets etc) with MCP
  • Connect to Slack: invite the bot to a channel like #executive-briefing

Ready to transform your KPI reporting?

Try Runbear’s AI agents and experience automated, intelligent KPI reporting in your workflow.